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Thinking literature
Inspired by Mary Shelley’s conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics. Ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, and Frankenstein are read anew.
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To float in the space between
A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award–winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.
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To write as if already dead
To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sens...
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Tolstoy together
“You know how, very occasionally in your life, there’s a ‘before and after’ reading experience? Well, reading War and Peace with Tolstoy Together has been that for me—a milestone not just in reading but in living.”—Michael Langan From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to Y...
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Tone
Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, exploring its implications for community, politics, and ecology.
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Toward the geopolitical novel
Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengest...
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Unlicensed
A major reinterpretation of the English Enlightenment that reveals how its radical ideas were shaped by a thriving literary undergroundIn early eighteenth-century England, books could be deadly, and dangerous ideas had to circulate in secret. Even though pre-publication licensing had ended in 169...
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Unpacking the personal library
Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultur...
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Used books
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring t...
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Vineland reread
Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.
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Voices, places
Celebrated poet David Mason’s delightful collection of essays explores the connections between literary voice and place.
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We the platform
We the Platform is a groundbreaking account of mass writing in the twenty-first century, identifying literary possibility amid the profound upheavals in traditional publishing.
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What's so great about the great books?
A popular novelist and literary blogger answers those who claim the classics are too difficult, too problematic, and too white—and explains what we gain by reading themWhen she was in her early twenties, then-aspiring writer Naomi Kanakia set out to read the Great Books—humankind’s most highly re...
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When i was that age did art exist?
This is a big bundle of essays and written talks, put down over a long number of years: Kelman hopes some of them make you smile. James Kelman began as a writer of fiction and became a writer of nonfiction in the bargain. He had a short story set for his first ever publication that the printer re...
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Why indigenous literatures matter
Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of o...
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Wild and whirling words: a poetic conversation
What would poets say about each other's poems if they were really honest?
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Wild girls
Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while ...
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Worlds of wonder
A beautifully illustrated journey through the most beloved classics of children’s literature, spanning more than twenty countries and one hundred and fifty yearsFrom Little Women to Harry Potter, children’s literature is a treasure trove of literary magic. Written in multiple genres and featuring...
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